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Why am I up before 6? What gives, brain? 

2 things I realized at some point yesterday. 

1. I was setting up photos for cellphone wallpaper when it hit me - I'm apparently pissy at Brendon and/or Spencer. Why?? I have no idea. Maybe it's a leftover from the coke thing and everyone saying "of course they left if Ryan's a cokehead!" and me thinking "ummm.... friends!?" and maybe it's just a defense thing from how everyone was against Ryan and Jon. But now I'm all maybe Brendon is secretly evil and all the adorable we see is just for show! And then why is Spencer with him? *suspicious gaze* 
It needs to go away and die in a fire 'cause I love Spencer and Brendon dammit! :( Then again, I haven't listened to either of the old albums since the breakup. Maybe it's PTSD :) Hopefully it'll go away now that I wrote it down.
It kinda did. I feel better now. And also don't wanna be team picking. My love for Ryan Ross really has nothing to do with teams :)) 

2) This is the first time since Ryan started writing that I'm on board with his influences. Oscar Wilde makes me want to kick puppies, Chuck Palahniuk makes me wanna kick him, The Beatles bore me, Closer (which I bought and read by accident many years ago and then watched the movie too also by accident *facepalm*) was an ok "book" but hardly something I'd quote. Ryan turned it into lyrics I love so that's ok and was always a little fascinating. But Mark Twain I love to bits. The Mysterious Stranger (the Medieval Austria version) is one of my favorite stories and other than that, I pretty much read everything of his that I got my hands on. 
So this new album will be a fun ride! 

"there is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream - a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought - a vagrant thought, a useless thought, a homeless thought, wandering forlorn among the empty eternities!" 

Community

 I don't do communities like failross . This one seems well moderated and all but I watched a situation like this develop once before and saw it end in actual tears and potential arson. So... thanks but no thanks. People tend to forget they aren't friends with the person they are "lovingly mocking" and that the person can't "lovingly mock" them back (and then he'd be called a douchebag) and the names get harsher, the examples get more trivial and mocks cut more to the bone. I know it's my choice to walk away and that's what I'll do, but this is my "sorry but that's not my humor please don't make me participate" post.
:)

Been bored...

 This is all I could find:

Jon:
In matters of opinion our rivals are insane #twaintweet
5:14 PM Jul 22nd from Twitterrific
 
Some people never change
3:56 PM Jun 30th from Twittelator
 
Ryan:
They just stay the same way
7:10 PM Jun 30th from TweetDeck

More Twain...

 I talked to lstinhpfdm  about it and decided to copy paste in case anyone else cares and doesn't know: 

The Twain quote is the "In matters of opinion our rivals are insane" 
Originally though it's slightly different. It's from 'Christian Science' and the whole quote goes like this: 

We all know that in all matters of mere opinion (every) man is insane - just as insane as we are... we know exactly where to put our finger upon his insanity: it is where his opinion differs from ours. All Democrats are insane, but not one of them knows it. None but the Republicans. All the Republicans are insane, but only the Democrats can perceive it. The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.

ETA: Though, y'know, Twain had some love for mentioning superstition himself so there's that ... :)